A faultless person has seven faults, a faulty person forty-eight faults.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about people
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The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about man
A boy living near a buddhist temple can learn an untaught sutra by heart.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about heart
Better to write down something one time than to read something ten times.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about time
The matchmaker always asks for too much money for his eight hundred lies.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about money
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about vision, action, nightmare
It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about world, life
Cold tea and cold rice are bearable, but cold looks and cold words are not.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
When someone is really hungry, then there is no such thing as bad food.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about food, things, bad luck, bad
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about beauty, truth, man
The hard road turns the traveller into the same dust that he has to swallow.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about glory, law, mother
If a man deceive me once, shame on him; if he deceive me twice, shame on me.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about shame, man
One dog yelping at nothing will set ten thousand straining at their collars.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about nothing
Better to be a crystal and to be broken, than to be a tile upon the housetop.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
Some people like to make of life a garden, and to walk only within its paths.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about garden, life, people
When ten thousand soldiers lie rotting, the general's reputation is enhanced.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about prestige, lie
Every little yielding to anxiety is a step away from the natural heart of man.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about heart, man
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about love
Only through suffering and sorrow do we acquire the wisdom not found in books.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about suffering, books, sadness, wisdom
